Anchor for vessels.



W. I. BABGOCK. ANCHOR FOR VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED DBO.19,1907.

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Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

WASHINGTON IRVING BABOOOK, OF NEW YORIQN. Y.

ANCHOR FOR VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27', 1908 Application filed December 19, 1907. Serial No. 407,129.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WASHINGTON IRVING BABOOCK, a resident of and Whose post-office address is 40 Franklin Place, Flushing, in the county of Queens and city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Anchors for Vessels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My improved anchor belongs to that class of anchors known as stockless, consisting only of a shank, head and ring, without any stock, and therefore adapted to be pulled up by the anchor cable attached to the ring against the side of the bow of the ship and carried in that position, the shank extending up into the hawse pipe and the head being outside. The anchor is then ready to be let go or dropped overboard at short notice without the necessity or raising it off the deck, where a stocked anchor must be carried when not in use. The ordinary and usual form of stockless anchor has the head made in the general shape of a cross bar with two flukes, hinged to the end. of the shank in various ways so as to allow the fiukes to swing out from the shank a certain distance on either side to form a hook, the

- flukes then entering the ground and opposing a resistance against the ull of the cable, which is the essence of t e device. The head has projections made on it in various ways so that whichever side of the head falls underneath the projections will catch the ground and act to trip the head and swing the flukes down so that they will enter the ground. Necessarily, therefore, the part of the anchor projecting from the hawse hole when the anchor is drawn up and not in use, that is, the head and flukes, is of an irregular shape with many sharp corners and angles. When a shi is being moved around docks and other s ips, this head is very liable to foul and catch on the docks and spiles or on other vessels, frequently being broken itself or causing damage to whatever it touches. In collisions between vessels under way also, the heads of these stockless anchors have frequently caused great damage, the anchor of one ship penetrating the side of the other ship and ripping through it for a greater or less distance. Particularly is this 'so in glancing collisions. Hawsers and lines are also liable to catch on and become fast to it. Further, this head being of an irregular shape side of the vessel in whatever and therefore only imperfectly covering up the hawse hole offers but little obstruction to the entrance of water when the vessel is among waves, and as it is difficult to fit a tight cover or buckler over the inner end of the hawse pi e on account of the chain cable passing t irough there, many cases have occurred where much water has entered the ship through the hawse pipe in a storm and vessels have been lost from that cause alone. My improved anchor was designed to avoid these objections and consists, generally s eaking, of a head formed of a deepdishec circular plate connected to the shank by a ball and socket or other universal joint so that the shank will ass through the hawse pipe and the heat will serve as a hawse buckler closely to cover the hawse hole in whatever position the anchor comes up.

In order that my invention may befully understood, I shall first describe in detail the mode in which I carry the same into practice and then particularly define the invention in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an anchor embodying my invention when resting on the bottom; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of said an chor indicating the shank in the hawse pipe and-the head covering the hawse hole; Fig. 3 is a view of the outside of the head of the anchor.

In the drawing 10 is the shank of the anchor 11 is the ring to which the cable is to be attached and 12 is the head of the anchor. To connect the shank 10 universally to the head 12 I, by reference, form the end of. the shank with a hall 13 and the head 12 with a socket 14, in which the ball 13 is fitted to work universally through a certain limited angle. The ball 13 is retained in the socket 14, preferably, by means of a correspondingly shaped annular plate 15 attached to the head 12. The head 12 is made in the form of a deep-dished circular plate so that when the shank 10 is drawn through the hawse pipe, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the head will act as a hawse buckler closely to cover the hawse hole and prevent water fromv entering therein. The universal joint permits the head to adjust itself closely against the osition the anchor comes up, as indicated in ig. 2. The

outside of the head is, by preference, made partly in the form of a frustum of a cone, so that when it is dropped on the bottomand tension is put upon the shank 10 by the cable, the edge of the head will be sure to catch the bottom and u set or tip the head into po sition substantial y as shown in Fig. 1, thereby taking a firm hold on the bottom. The outer part of the head, as Well as that of the retaining plate 15 is made rounded as shown so that, the ball 13 being also rounded, there Will be no projections on the outside of the head to foul or catch on docks or spiles or other vessels or on hawsers or lines, as herein before set forth.

Having thus described my invention and the manner in which I carry the same into practice, I claim as my invention A combined. anchor and hawse buckler for vessels consisting of a head formed of a dished circular plate adapted to cover and close the haWse hole and also to catch on the bottom, and a shank connected by a universal joint to said head, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 17th day of December 1907.

WASHINGTON IRVING BABCOUK.

In presence of CLARENCE L. BURGER, Z. F. PHELPS. 

